2.3 Historical Directionality
Last modified 05/21/2008
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Our model enters a completely new terrain, for we have discovered
something always suspected, but always rejected, a teleological factor in human
evolution. What's more we can see the ingenious way in which this factor can
coexist with its opposite, the undoubted reason for the chronic confusions of
the question. But we should be clear that we have discovered only historical, or
rather, evolutionary directionality, not teleology. We are still immersed in the
process we are describing, and can make no statements, as yet, about its future
end point, hence we can't confirm the teleological factor in detail. But his
should not prevent us from seeing a definite macro factor generating historical
direction, this whether or not the factor of free action truly realizes its
potential. This new type of system is a vivid, yet still unfamiliar, kind of
system, however, whose properties don't match typically metaphysical discussions
of teleology, which are usually misleading, if not incorrect. We see a
nudging-forward system, not unlike (at least in broad principle) a feedback
device, that interrupts a continuous stream to reset direction.
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